E-Paper
Four injured in multiple mishaps in Lucknow
Lucknow reported multiple road accidents due to dense fog, but no casualties occurred. Several injured were hospitalized, and police are investigating.
The state capital on Monday reported multiple road accidents, some of them due to dense morning fog. However, no casualties were reported in any of these incidents.
A DCM and a truck collided due to heavy fog on Kisan Path near Pasin Dhakhwa village at around 5 am on Monday under the Sushant Golf City police station area limits.
According to police, the accident was severe but there was no causality as the DCM driver who was stuck in the vehicle was taken out and admitted into a nearby hospital for treatment.
Sushant Golf City police station personnel reached the site and rescued DCM driver Suraj Yadav, 28. Meanwhile, the truck driver fled the spot.
“He was immediately sent to CHC Gosainganj for treatment with the help of local people,” said Lucknow police.
In another road accident, a bus hit two including a vegetable vendor loading vegetables on a handcart near Manpur Sabji Mandi in Itaunja police station area of Lucknow. The bus hit the person crushing the legs of the vegetable vendor.
“Local police immediately reached the spot and sent both the seriously injured persons Raj Bahadur, 28, and Raju, 55 years to a nearby hospital for treatment, where they are undergoing treatment,” said Lucknow police in a statement adding that the bus has been taken into police custody and further legal action is being taken.
Likewise, a speeding driver hit a car in Nigohan, injuring one person in the passenger seat. The car driver Som Prakash, 36, told police that he was going home from Nigohan town in his car, when a rashly driven DCM coming from Rae Bareli towards Lucknow, hit his car, in which Chakraveer Singh, who was sitting in the car, got injured. “An FIR under multiple BNS sections has been registered,” said police in a statement.
